Example: steel peal stale peel
| 1. | Bert | Curt | shirt | Bart |
| 2. | coot | loot | soot | shoot |
| 3. | relate | fete | weight | height |
| 4. | spook | took | look | rook |
| 5. | food | mood | brewed | good |
| 6. | sewed | glued | chewed | nude |
| 7. | jerk | clerk | work | shirk |
| 8. | packed | backed | baked | fact |
| 9. | scene | sign | mean | convene |
| 10. | laze | phase | days | size |
| 11. | peak | steak | leak | cheek |
| 12. | soot | cut | put | foot |
| 13. | height | tight | weight | might |
| 14. | stalk | work | fork | cork |
| 15. | quite | night | lied | light |
| 16. | clear | bear | hare | fair |
| 17. | barred | bared | hard | yard |
| 18. | duke | spook | look | Luke |
| 19. | taught | court | snort | coughed |
| 20. | priced | missed | fist | kissed |
Ex. 10.9 Spelling tests:
a) Each word here has the sound [e]. How many ways are there to spell this sound?
Arrange the words into the groups:
| ready desk bread instead against leather | hello next helpings said breakfast sledge | meant again when enemy hedgehog pencil |
b) Tick the words that have the vowel sound [ ɒ ]:
| catch pond bones pocket what bought | job home blank road house roof | wife doctor popular soup close horse |
c) Each word here has the sound [Λ]. How many ways are there to spell this sound?
Arrange the words into the groups:
| touch stuff drum rough among glove | tongue dug mother trust done month | country enough son double couple muddy |
d) Each word here has the sound [f]. How many ways are there to spell this sound?
Arrange the words into the groups:
| laugh coffee herself face enough | officer fact elephant gift off | epigraph roof farmer rough telephone |
e) Each word here has the sound [eI]. How many ways are there to spell this sound? Arrange the words into the groups:
| hay main trail may save | gate tray fail lane sail | stage paint stay place game |
f) Each word here has the sound [i:]. How many ways are there to spell this sound?
Arrange the words into the groups:
| seed dream sleep wheel team | grief week niece delete complete | sea eve field meat scene |
g) Each word here has the sound [aI]. How many ways are there to spell this sound? Arrange the words into the groups:
| find dime fly right quite | tight bright pile ninth kind | mine dry line flight sigh |
h) Each word here has the sound [əυ]. How many ways are there to spell this sound? Arrange the words into the groups:
| doze moan snow goat hold | stone cold joke gold bowl | road code grow float blow |
i) Each word here has the sound [u:]. How many ways are there to spell this sound? Arrange the words into the groups:
| moon chew glue blew zoo blue | clue drew rule true threw June | school pool rude include gloomy boot |






